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by distortionfield 1y ago
A shocking amount, and it’s well spent, because it literally underpins everything else. The stability it provides (or rather, provided in the past) is what made America so appealing to build and invest in in the first place.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
Lefty here. I didnt consider the WaPo left of center. I considered them moderate right. What’s really interesting about this is that the Overton window has shifted so far to the right with this presidency that even moderate right is now exp
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by distortionfield 2y ago
And now that we’re in debt for them, they’re using that massive debt, that they created, to argue for dismantling and privatizing those same systems.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
That assumes that the corporations would be on the wrong side of the uncertainty. To me, it seems that the political environment in the US is the most corporate -friendly it’s maybe ever been, so maybe the market priced that in but for the
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by distortionfield 2y ago
Not only that, but that same Republican controlled congress has seemed more than happy to throw their hands up and let Trump stomp all over their authority. I guess because it hurts the Democrats more than them right now.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
That is literally the entirety of a manager’s job: judging and evaluating people they manage.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
That isn’t the point of this entire thread, though. It’s about what the default is, because like it or not, most people are crazy susceptible and have practically zero media literacy.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
Trying to use bitcoin like this is like trying to use certificates of deposit to buy coffee. Bitcoin is a store of value, it’s nonsense to try and use it like this. Look at Ethereum if you want a medium of exchange fit for the digital age.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
He didn’t step away willingly the first time, I have zero reason to believe he would step away willingly the second time, especially after he’s spent so much time undoing all the checks and balances that pushed him out that first time.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
We do not have an independent judiciary, they have already shown their allegiance to the President.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
> who’s going to enforce it? This is the real danger of where we’re at right now. We are currently at a point where the President has a stacked Supreme Court that had already showed they’re willing to take his side almost no matter what.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
Trust is multi-faceted and although I trust Amazon to deliver me a toaster, i don’t for a second trust them to handle my audio or video in a manner I’m comfortable. This survey is talking about the latter kind of trust, not the former.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
This is more or less how I use LLMs right now. They’re fantastic at the plumbing, so that I can focus on the important part - the business and domain logic.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
We certainly are, if you ask me. Especially when you realize that we haven’t had official comms with Russia since the war in Ukraine broke out.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
This is spot on. It’s not that I think health insurance companies are making insane profit margins. It’s that their very existence in the system is a pure negative and in fact a moral blight. Inflicting profit into a system that is entirely
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by distortionfield 2y ago
> very late when was your fully reusable full-flow staged combustion rocket engine scheduled flight, again?
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by distortionfield 2y ago
I’m in a slightly different boat. The CEO’s rubbish behavior sucks, but the company shouldn’t be diminished by that. The people behind SpaceX are a modernd day Apollo Program. Absolute marvels of engineering.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
Survival of our species, for one. Never the mind short-sighted folks like yourselves clawing us back the entire way.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
I’ve seen this argument made so much lately I’m starting to feel like it’s being astroturfed.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
The prices definitely did go down, just not to same levels as before. But I agree Biden failed to hit on that messaging though, and Kamala made the same mistake.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
The CHIPS act is going to be his legacy. That and the infra bill, I think. That bill is responsible for several bridges in my area getting much needed attention from what I understand.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
Right? Biden actually pulled off a soft landing and got inflation under control. Just couldn’t land that messaging by the time it mattered.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
This is the same boring alarmist argument we’ve heard since the Industrial Revolution. Humans have always turned extra output provided by technological advancement to increase overall productivity.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
They were falling for those conspiracies before LLMs and arguably even before the internet. They're just able to be much louder now.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
This has to be related to the removal of that additive from cargo ship fuel, no? It was theorized it was causing a huge amount of cloud formation.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
One of the comments on this post raises a really good question. What does this hypothesis say to the German language kicking verbs to the end of the sentence? Ive heard native Germans say they like and even prefer this feature to English’s
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by distortionfield 2y ago
Me. I am. Trump keeps making jokes about a third term, about not leaving, and about getting republicans to keep him in power. But there’s also that one that wasn’t a joke where he actually tried to stay in power by targeting the most symbol
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by distortionfield 2y ago
Absolutely agree. We need chip supremacy as a home-soil tech asap. Jet engines are no longer the challenge they previously were for China, we can’t afford to let the same happen with chips.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
This is cool! In rust, nonetheless. is blob support planned? Will definitely be messing around with this.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
The house number you saw is actually part of the Lucas sequence. it’s related to and is a good approximation at large numbers of the Fibonacci but at small numbers becomes distorted. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca

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